Success! We have a board.

We made the quorum for our annual meeting. By two people. Thank you if you showed up in person, or if you took the time to return a proxy form to reach quorum. Or did both. It makes a difference. I will lobby that next year we make it clear right on the proxy form that you can scan and email them back to make it more convenient.

But we made it.

All five board members ran for re-election and no one else decided to run so the board does not change, except that John McQuiston (alias your humble blog author) will become the HOA Secretary and Lauren Brusa becomes the at-large member. This means that I must take the minutes at the meetings instead of Lauren, and that I might have to pay closer attention!

(Kidding!)

Members of the HOA also voted unanimously to approve a change in how we save money in our reserves, going from what's called the component method to something known as the pooled method. It's also called the cash-flow method. It will give the HOA more flexibility in spending money from the reserves on things we need to repair.

For instance, we've re-painted some of the buildings after repairing cracks in them. We spent money from the general fund for that. It means we can reduce - some - how much we contribute to our painting reserves, and also means that if, say, our roads wear out faster than we expected, we can move money from the painting reserve to fix the roads.

I think I got all that correct.

I know this is true: our next HOA meeting is December 17.  I hope to see you there.

Annual Meeting TONIGHT

Our annual meeting to elect our new board is tonight. If you can't make it, please scan and e-mail your proxy form to JCalcagni@lelandmanagement.com, or hand it to HOA board member John McQuiston, who will camp out at the mailboxes from about 5 p.m. until he has to leave for the meeting at River of Life Christian Center on Krycul Ave.


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Note about proxy forms

Turning in a proxy form does NOT forfeit your right to attend the meeting and vote, so please turn one in even if you plan to go to the meeting November 19.

Annual Meeting Next Tuesday, November 19

Important!

We have our annual meeting next Tuesday. It happens at the usual location, the River of Life Christian Church on Krycul Avenue in Riverview. Start time ins 7:15 p.m.

This is the meeting at which we elect the board members for the next year. We need a quorum of owners (approximately 80) either to attend the meeting, or to return a proxy form for the meeting to happen.

This is important. If we fail to reach a quorum, and can't elect a board, our HOA could go into receivership, and we'd pay lawyers a lot of money to do what our fellow owners currently do for free.

Notice of the meeting, including a proxy form, should have arrived in your mailbox by now. If not, please email board@stcharlesplace.us and we'll email a copy of the form to you.

You need only fill out the first two parts of the form. If you want to designate someone to vote in your place, you can select (b) and write that person's name. Otherwise choose (a). That basically says you give consent for the meeting to happen. Then complete the section that asks for your name, unit address, and signature.

You can scan and email your completed form to the board (at the address above).

Please take a few minutes to do this vital service for your community.